Places
- Boothroyd, West Yorkshire, a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, England.
- Boothroyd First Nation, a First Nations government area in British Columbia, Canada.
- The Hartung-Boothroyd Observatory, located near Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA.
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